- Hardcover: 640 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (Oct 27 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 026222030X
- ISBN-13: 978-0262220309
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 626 g
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This volume brings together for the first time John von Neumann's long-out-of-print articles on computer architecture, programming, large-scale computing, and automata theory. A number of significant papers in these areas that were not included in the multivolume John von Neumann. Collected Works (1963) have now been reprinted here. These pioneering articles - written between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s - are of enduring value not only to computer historians but to computer scientists at the vanguard of current research. Most of today's computers are still constructed in accordance with the "von Neumann architecture," and his technique of flow charting remains basic in the domain.
Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computer Theory is volume 12 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing.
Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computer Theory is volume 12 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing.
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Essential words from one of the fathers of modern computers, July 1 2011
By GeoVizer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computing Theory (Hardcover)
I found this book fascinating. I originally sought it out because it has a reprint of "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", which is the first place that von Neumann laid out his conception of computing. The book also contains reprint of a synopsis of von Neumann's first computer program by Donald Knuth, as well as other sections on flow diagrams, "high-speed computing", and automata theory.If you are interested in the history of computing, and are at least somewhat mathematically inclined, you will find original works of interest here. I think both qualities are necessary to get much out of the book.
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Papers of John von Neuman, Mar 3 2000
By Jeremias - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computing Theory (Hardcover)
This book is interesting for anybody who is interested on computers architecture, but it might be more graphical.
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